Saturday, March 8, 2008

my top 10 blogging commandments: advises and petpeeves

10. thou shall not over accessorized.i believe that a good blogsite starts with the content and the simplicity of its format. as they say it, simplicity is beauty.for people like me in which focus is as expensive as henry sy's net worth, a linear format of the blog site is always the main deal. over accessorizing your blogs with so many informations, like:*too many cboxes (which i really don't know why),*moving bling-bling icons with patweetums characters (that first infested social networking sites like friendsters),*billions of links that routes to nowhere (and would just give you pop ups, malware and crashing computer),*embeded media files that automatically plays and in full volume (which i really hate because it would surprise then gives you the hardest time looking for the program hidden either at the very bottom of the page or somewhere in the middle),makes it not conducive in reading and very very very annoying.

9. honor thy blog listings.the number of your blog links doesn't really justify the popularity of your site. as much as possible i really tend to make my list more personal. i have nothing against people who are asking for exchange links because i am really grateful for people who are asking this and regularly visit my blog and i also do the same. but if you're intentions are just to collects blog links like collecting anonymous friends in your friendster. please don't bug me.

8. though shall not post for posting sake.there are moments where you are in front of your screen, you have all the time in the world, you're so enthusiastic in updating your blog again after a long, long time. but by the time you lay your fingers on your keyboard, you just couldn't think of anything at all. its natural, it happens, its understandable so don't panic. they call it, writer's block.indeed, blogging is a personal thing. but posting something just for the sake of posting like " i am bored...," "i woke up, i eat, i go to school, i take a snack, i went home, i sleep, then i wake up again. (like duh!)" are no longer personal things rather a meer display of your senseless self. so if i were you, i would not write anything at all. if you can't write anything out then you could just browse and check other blog sites. instead of posting non sense.

7. thou shall not kiss other blogger's asses.go figure. hehehe.

6. honor thy blog and other people's blogs.self explainatory.

5. thou shall not be an attention sucker.maintaining a blog is like sustaining a business. there are people who prefers to be private with their blogs (and i admire them). while there are others who wants to open it to the public.there are many public bloggers who hop from one blog to another just to gain attention. these are the types of bloggers who would just view your site but not really read your entries rather they would immediately look for the cbox and post a message such as: nice blog you have here! good day! etc. basically, with the main intention of getting the owner's attention and check out this guy's blog.i will not wash my hands because even i "sometimes" is also guilty with this observation. in addition, i chose not to explain myself anymore. but i think that there are only a number of people who raises this up. but alot of them are getting annoyed of it. thus, i am pointing it out.

4. thou shall post often.i think that sometimes lazy bloggers should be reminded time to time. so i am rubbing it in! hahaha. eat it!

3. thou shall not prostitute one's self.know the purpose of why you are blogging. is it to track down your thoughts or to gain income by posting ads or both? this should always be taken in consideration in starting, sustaining and even dropping a blog.

2. thou shall not stagnate to one topic.don't bore yourself in writing one topic only. there are a lot of things there that could be write about. but if you really want to specialized into it, then try using a different writing method. you don't want your readers or even yourself get bored, right?

1. thou shall not post for others but by thy self.never allow yourself to be dictated of what to write by your readers. always remember you blog for yourslef and not for other people's pleasure. sometimes, i just noticed that there are some bloggers who write in accordance with their readers and not primarily to themselves.

well, i just hope i was able to catch your attention (fishing!) hahaha...

pathbinder: hahaha...actually, that was the 10 was the first thing i have thought about and probably they have been ranked higher. but it seemed like this was something more common than the rest on the list.

now these commandments are worth thinking about esp if one is maintaining a blog! asking for a link, ouch, sakit naman nyan. eniweys, i really make it a point dat at most, all my links i try to visit often. i linked them becoz i enjoy and learn new things from them.

Forgive me father for i have sinned... nyahahaha i will remove that stupid music box.... i made sure to put it up at the top of my blog though so it would be easy for someone to just turn it off or tone it down if they don't like it. but still i will be removing it.. =) cool list btw...

uhmmm. i tend to "follow" bloggers without asking them if i could follow them. is that uhmm unethical? i do not intend for them to follow me really whenever i follow them, i just wanna follow them so that i can easily read their updates on my reader.

uhmm so should i first ask if i can follow them or can i just immediately follow them?

am really not used to sending private messages to people and i sometimes don't know how.

thanks bunchies!

btw. cool site. though been dropping by from time to time but not really leaving a mark here.

just to add something, I guess as a blogger, if we are posting a topic about a controversial item or something that is the current talk of the town, we do it not because we want to get a good number of hits for our blog to be popular but we are doing it because we want to bring out a sensible point-of-view for others to read.

hi there it's my first time to visit your blog, well im a frustrated wannabe blogger but i can't start with a good one,i tried to write a blog on yahoo 360 and i think ok naman sya, basta lang mejo nasa tamang wisyo ako hehe,lalo na pag mejo inis at bwisit talagang nailalabas ko ang feelings ko. sana give me some tips on how to elaborate much in terms of starting and ending a blog,thanks. keep it up.